In 1980, the British label Rough Trade opened a Stateside satellite office in San Francisco and, as a way of introduction, curated a 14-song collection of the label’s […]
Post-Punk
The sound of a clumsily brilliant band figuring out how to harness their increasingly practiced musical chops while retaining the chaos required of Mark E. Smith’s lifelong project, […]
One of the first signings on Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent’s imprint 4AD is also one of its least known, even if “Fond Affections” eventually found a bigger […]